I was a bartender at a high-end restaurant in New Orleans in the late 90's. Roger Moore and his wife dined there one day. He was always my favorite Bond. He was very nice. After he ordered a champagne drink, I took it upon myself to go to his table with a Martini, shaken not stirred of course. He was taken aback and said, "but I did not order this." I told him that it was on the house and that I couldn't let James Bond come in y place and not serve him a Martini. He was very appreciative. He came by the bar after and we had a wonderful conversation. He was a class act all the way. Just what you'd expect from Bond.

May Day: "Wow! What A View!" Zorin: "To A Kill!" Now who could possibly call that bad writing!

My head can see all the flaws of this film, but my heart loves it. Walken might be the best Bond villain - total sociopath who laughs at even his own death 😂

There's a reason they kept asking Roger Moore to come back, his films were hugely successful.

As a 54 year old, I must insist that 57 is NOT too old to be a women chasing, action hero.

I think the real James Bond would regret saving silicon valley today after whats its become.

This was THE James Bond movie when I was a kid

One of the best soundtracks in the series

This was always my favorite Bond film and R.I.P. to the great Roger Moore.

[Very] Unpopular opinion: this is my favorite James Bond movie

Alan Ladd Jr - this guy. Greenlit _Star Wars_ & _Blade Runner_ and protected Cubby & the Bond franchise from hack executives.

First of all, I don't give a damn how old Sir Roger Moore was when he filmed 'A View To A Kill'. He is my favorite Bond and the only Bond I grew attached to as a young kid in the late 70's to 1985. I didn't get to see any of the Bond films at the theaters. But on the ABC Sunday Night Movies Of The Week, the Bond films would always come on there and it was a must see TV event. When they'd show a Sean Connery Bond film or George Lazenby's 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', I'd be like as a kid "Who are these guys?" "Where's my favorite Roger Moore?" So why did Sir Roger Moore become my favorite Bond? Well, for sort of superficial reasons. I thought for a man and a spy he was very good looking, charming and witty. I thought he looked so cool and commanding when he put on his Commander Bond uniform in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. And the ultimate reason why he became my favorite Bond: When he took Barbara Bach underwater in that white Lotus Esprit and turned it into a mini submarine with rockets and smoke screens, that was it! I thought that was the coolest and most badass thing ever as a kid! Make no mistake about it, Sean Connery is the ultimate Bond. He set the standard and the stakes. Sometime in the early 90's I revisited Sean Connery's Bond films and 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'. I enjoyed George Lazenby's version of Bond and he gets a bad rap. Timothy Dalton was intense, gritty and brilliant as Bond. In my opinion he had more charisma and charm than Daniel Craig in any of his more recent films as Bond. And I like Daniel Craig. Pierce Brosnan was like Roger Moore 2.0, younger, charming, witty, sensual and more physical than Roger Moore. Daniel Craig in his first outing in Casino Royal was like a bulldog. Intense, physical, brutal and direct. I've taken something positive from every Bond. But for sentimental reasons, Sir Roger Moore is my personal favorite.

I went to Roger's book signing in seasons in Dublin many a year back .I was in work when I heard he was across the road .I walked out of my job and went straight there.only time I done something as crazy as this. the crowd was huge and indont thinking expected itbto be he looked quite overwhelmed. il.never forget seeing him with my own eyes .always a hero of mine glad I seen him

This is one of my favorite Bond movies, no matter what people say. It had action, a great story, great actors and it was entertaining. Roger Moore was old? Yes, but he felt old already in "For your eyes only" so that wasn't something new, he didn't become old just like that.

Tom Cruise is 58 and there's no one saying he's too old to be in action movies.

This movie is really entertaining plus amazing soundtrack from Duran Duran and amazingly beautiful Tanya Roberts

Lol “Speaks at least five languages with no accent”.

I've always returned to this film more than most of the other one's. I can watch Walken all day long. I don't think it is boring, maybe the whole Stacey Sutton story line could have been reduced but I love the whole Nazi experiment angle.

One of my favorite Bond movies. Love the 80s vibe. Great soundtrack!

One could never have too much of Oliver’s retrospective. Thank you for the countless hours

This should have been Timothy Dalton's 007 debut. He would have brought the necessary energy, and helped give the film more of an edge.

Mayday: Wow what a view. Zorin: To a kill.

This tends to be my favourite Roger Moore Bond film as it’s the one I’ve seen the most.

There isn't really a James Bond film that I dislike. Some are better then others but none of them are terrible.

I will honest... seen this film a ton of times. Never knew Dolf was in it.

back in '85, i was 11 years old when i watched "a View to a Kill" in theater ...it was my first James Bond-movie and I LOVED IT!! i was too young to understand the importance of microchips at the time = "WTF is Silicon Valley?!" :D i don't care what critics, medias and internet say ...this movie is great!

One of the things I like about Roger Moore is that he kept his Bond going until he was almost 60.

I can forgive every flaw in this Bond film. I saw it with my late beloved grandmother, and it has remained my favourite since. I know it is not the best one, but I have such powerful notalgia for it.

This is my fourth favorite Moore film, a guilty pleasure. Great soundtrack, villains and an original evil plan. This film would have not have worked an introduction to Timothy Dalton, the amazing pre-title senescence from TLD wouldn't have existed.

I wonder how "A View to a Kill" would have been if Timothy Dalton was James Bond earlier rather than Roger Moore?

This is the last James Bond film to feature Roger Moore as 007, and Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny.

The film that made me a Bond fan.

Roger is in many ways my favorite Bond. He exudes class and masterfully chews up scenery. I even like his wit and comedy. It's something that's sorely lacking from Daniel Craig's Bond.

I just noticed that Daniel Craig with his last Bond movie "No Time To Die" just broke Moore's record of being the Bond actor who played Bond the longest (taking only the official bond movies in account). Connery played bond from 1962 to 1971 (9 years). Moore played Bond from 1973 to 1985 (12 years) while Craig played Bond for 14 years from 2006 to 2020.

Another great retrospective review from Oliver Harper. The intro music from The Cannon Group made me smile. A cool childhood memory of so many video rentals.

Me and my brother watched this film today and found it to be very entertaining. Quite silly in places but certainly not boring :) We're now planning on working our way through all of the Roger Moore Bond films :)

"Moah... Moah powah!"

It's amazing that John Glen went from AVTAK - a film shot like an action-packed episode of _Dynasty_ - to the genuine action masterpiece of TLD.

the intro to this video summarizing the plot is great , awsome video man! love when u do bond stuff.

Thank you for sharing this video, I absolutely love this movie - it was the first bond film i ever saw and have probably watched it 100 times since. was able to go on a few business trips to San Francisco over the years and always visit the locations like city hall, the bridge, etc and i always hear that awesome score and great music.

The scores to this and the next film are my favorite two of the series.

So I've been reading about the Bond films, and this film's villain's evil plot is apparently basically Goldfinger's, but with microchips in place of gold. Like Oliver Harper said, Bond movies typically don't try to re-invent the wheel, and to be fair when a new movie is out every few years it's understandable plots will be reused, especially when most people watch Bond movies for the action scenes over all else. If only Disney didn't view Star Wars in a similar way.

It’s interesting to note that Pierce Brosnan’s Everything or Nothing (The video game considered Brosnan’s fifth outing as Bond.) that it’s sort of a sequel to View to a Kill. The main villain William Defoe plays Diavolo was a protégé to Zorin (who hired Jaws as his henchman). The story was similar where Diavolo took the idea of the microchips from Zorin and mixed it with modern technology with nanotechnology. Considering the reception of this movie I found it interesting they took the direction they did with Everything or Nothing as being a semi sequel to View to a Kill which is very uncommon (before the Craig movies) to see direct references to previous stories (with the exception of Jaws who appears a few times). But to get a story that throws back to a villain that wasn’t apart of spectre and that wasn’t that warmly recieved got me to enjoy A View to a Kill much more. I also think Everything or Nothing was one of the better non Fleming Bond stories out there. If your a fan of Bond not into video games really or one of the few who really enjoyed this movie I recommend finding the game on youtube or finding a copy to play which is much better and check it out.

My dad told me once back in the early 80s he was in London and pulled up at a red light and a car pulled up beside him when he looked across it was Rodger moore, my dad waved at him and he smiled and waved back, seems to.Have been a really nice man

This was the film debut of Alison Doody who later played Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

I actually love this film! It was the first Bond that I ever saw in the Cinema, and as a 7 year old it was fantastic. It's a Roger Moore Bond film and it has all the Roger Moore Bond stuff in it that I could want. It's infinitely better than Die Another Day and most of the Craig Bonds.

Every time I think I know everything about a movie. Oliver comes through with his PhD level of research. Amazing work as always

Does anyone remember the SNL skit with Christopher Walken playing Zorin and Phil Hartman playing Roger's OO7? Dana Carvey may be fondly remembered for his impersonations, but Phil was just as good! From Roger to Frank Sinatra to Peter Graves to Charlton Heston to Ray "Leland Palmer" Wise and more. R.I.P.

John Glen thought that Roger Moore could’ve done another two Bonds films after this???. What the hell was he smoking back then

I have very fond memories of watching this on VHS on wet Sunday afternoons.

I've been watching these retrospectives for years. Mr. Harper tells me all the information I never knew I wanted to know

True story: I saw this opening night in Gaithersburg, MD. The theater was sold out...kind of. Y’see once the trailers were over and the film started, the front half of the theatre would start shrieking. And then...the theme song finally started and all these teenage girls got out of their seats, started screaming and DANCING to Duran Duran. 😳😃 Once the song ended, they all left the movie, lol. As a kid I didn’t understand and would never see anything like that again...until the opening night of the Mortal Kombat movie and the front row got up and started raving 🤪

Should have kept the Halley's Comet idea instead of the earthquake.

If David Bowie did it with Grace Jones that would be Jones & Jones, being that Bowie's real name was Jones. It would have been quite an interesting pairing David Bowie & Grace Jones in a Bond Film. Though I don't know if Bowie's acting skills were upto playing a Bond villain and he was better placed as the Goblin King with his highly packed pants in Labyrinth.

I quite liked that movie when it came out (I was in my teens and still quite easy impressible), it was the first "multimedia" event at least for me, with the movie, the music video and the computer game. And it was only years after when I saw a behind the scenes documentary that I got to know that the blimps in the movie were not real (except some far away shots), just models and partial builds. Very well done.

This bond movie was so 80's which made it amazing.

Do Moonraker next, despite a lot of people disliking it, as far as I'm concerned it's my favourite Bond film, even over Casino Royale - because it's just a load of FUN from start to finish!

5:15 AVTK being on the "worst of the year" list? That is insane! The movie is far from perfect and it is by far the weakest of the John Glen-directed Bond flicks but is falls squarely into the "okay but forgettable" range. It's not even close to being one of the worst movies ever.

one of my favorite bond movies!! oliver, your intro trailer is epic AF!!!! love all the wonderful work you do!

I feel this was on every Sunday afternoon when I was a kid. Great video as usual Oliver, would love to see more Bond ones.

I love how we live in a world where one can live in a world where one can say "They were looking at David Bowie or Sting for the role but had to settle for Academy award winning actor Christopher Walken "

A View to a Kill is the first Bond film I can remember seeing. Few will argue that there aren't better films in the series, but I'll always have a soft spot for it. And Roger Moore will always be MY Bond.

Great stuff Olly, been looking forward to more retrospectives!

My first Bond film

Roger Moore was my favourite Bond, but sadly I think this is the weakest of his movies in this series. I met Roger once shortly after Live And Let Die arrived at the cinema, he was at the 70's version of a press junket in my local town. He did a Q&A session and signed autographs, I managed to get one and spoke to him for a couple of minutes. He was a true gentleman, and is greatly missed by his fans. I wonder if the Bond movies would have changed if Pierce Brosnan had become Bond in the late 80's, but as he was under contract for Remington Steele we had to wait a few more years to find out.

this is a masterpiece that scene with bond at Ascot is amazing!!!

This was a great job on this retrospective Oliver!

The only elements shared by this movie and its source material/shor story: the male protagonist, one locale (France), and most of title. Ahg! In the story, 007 meets with a female partner, who is well-portrayed. They lie in wait in some woods and nab some villains riding a motorbike. At least Michael Wilson could've thrown in those scenes to humour Flemming readers. I like John Barry's symphonic arrangement and the low-tech fight at the end (man vs man with axe).

Definitely my favorite of the goofier, fun Bond movies! Great video, Oliver!

ah, this was the old man just before we got the single greatest Bond of all time, Timothy Dalton.

This is the first retrospective/review as a patron and it’s amazing seeing my name at the end 🙂

Great work, Oliver - thank you. Would love more Bond retrospectives!

5:23 and they consider it an issue that "Zoran's plan was flawed"? I think Stromberg's plan to annihilate all life on the surface of the Earth and force the survivors to live in an underwater kingdom had one or two flaws.... the Main Baddy's logic is often flawed..... theyre often cruel, super rich, meglo-maniacal psychopath visionaries, drunk on power. No apparent logic is the least of our worries!

I wish this was Daltons first film

Great video, thanks for uploading! So, I get all the criticisms. But this is actually one of my favorite entries and I think I’ve watched it more than any other in the series. It’s always been hanging around somewhere in my Top 10 of the series. Also, it’s pretty cool that in an interview with Cary Fukunaga, director of No Time To Die, he could have named ANY Bond movie in the series that influenced him or had an impact on him as a kid and he chose A View to a Kill. Dope.

I was in the theater opening day. Loved it. Still do.

One of my favorite Bond movies. Yeah, Moore was looking old but he never lost a beat.

Please Do Live and Let Die!!

I loved the score. Learning it leaned on OHMSS probably explains why. Two of my favorites of the entire series.

The Zorin airship was "parked" at Goodwood about 7 miles from Amberley chalkpit museum where the outside of the mine sequence was filmed. As I lived just round the corner from Goodwood it was quite alarming to see an airship with a dummy hanging off a guide rope sailing overhead. There were apparently a number of 999 calls.

Neither the name “Zorin” nor any other things is meant to portray a real person or a real company.

Best score of the series. Overall, WAY better than Octopussy!

Great work as always, Oliver

I love this film, the soundtrack, even the effects are pretty excellent. It’s a guilty pleasure.

RIP Tanya Roberts

Zorin. Speaks atleast 5 languages without an accent! Can't even speak English without one 😂

Sir Roger, my childhood hero and he stayed that way till the end. Pure class sorely missed these days

Love the sound of those Porsche engines in the airship. “Does anyone else want to drop out?”

Moore was the best ambassador for James Bond offscreen, never saying a bad word in public. Unlike the eastern bloc actor playing the role at present . This film is certainly not the worst in the series, the world is not enough/no time to die/quantum of solace would be much better candidates for that award.

Do a retrospective on Beverly Hills cop please

Still remember this one because it was the movie my friend and I paid for while we sneaked in to see Rambo 2 in the theater down the hall from View to a Kill when we were kids. Ended up sneaking back into this one to watch what we missed only to get busted for sneaking into the PG movie, not the rated R one LOL. We got thrown out, but at least we got to see Rambo 2 and most of View to a Kill.

A View to a Kill is on this Sunday on ITV. That's handy.

Even Oliver's excellent opening trailer couldn't make the plot look interesting :/

I'd rather watch this movie than the boring, soulless Craig movies like Spectre and Quantum

This film holds a crazy special place in my heart, my family used to go to San Francisco a lot in the 80’s, it was the first time I can remember being in a location where a film was made, especially a bond film. John Barry’s music especially that track “wine with Stacy” so memorable, thankful for the memories this film added to my youth. There’s a really great rendition of the title song by Duran Duran at Coachella that honored John Barry, it’s on YT-highly recommended watch.

Good you mentioned Amberley Chalk Pits Museum!

Oliver's channel is 100% THE BEST movie review channel. Why Chris Stuckmann's channel has 1M+ subs is beyond me.

I will say that Oliver's intro makes this Bond film really intense. I still like this movie, but the Bond girl was annoying.

I always thought what the hell Dolph was thinking when he got into Grace Jones , well this movie explained it a little bit

As an 80s kid A View To A Kill has a lot of nostalgia for me with music videos being such a huge part of pop culture at the time it was hard not to get caught up in the excitement. Parts of it haven't aged well and are long and boring, but the stunts, action sequences and set pieces are still iconic movie images from childhood for me.